Showing posts with label messel pit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label messel pit. Show all posts
Thursday, January 12, 2017
Fossil of a Leptictidium auderiense Shrew-like Creature
This picture is of a Leptictidium auderiense (Tobien, 1962) shrew-like fossil. It was found in the Messel Pit of Germany. Creature existed in the Paleogene Period, Eocene Epoch (Lutetian).
Fossil displayed at the Museum of Natural History in Paris France August 2016.
Labels:
eocene,
germany,
messel pit,
Muséum National D'Historie Paris,
paleogene,
shrew
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